Click::TWEET

Appropriating obsolete telegraph keys and foregrounding their sound making qualities, Click::TWEET replays Twitter messages as Morse code. Playing the messages in this way re-presents, what some consider, one noisy medium (Twitter feeds) through another (key clicks) to create a presence of telegraphic communication within the contemporary realm of social media. Click::TWEET is seen as a return to the material representation of media by re-engaging the material analogue world in tandem with the digital it can be considered a return to the tactility of pre-digital media.

2020